Truth behind Lies
When a bomb goes off and the team gets kidnapped, something shocks everyone. Ari's back! He was supposed to be dead; she killed him three years ago! Is his story true? Or is it just another lie?
Characters
Ari/Ziva
Brother/sister
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A/N- This chapter is dedicated to AthosionWarrior and Maybe-I-Should-Write-Something!
AthosionWarrior's idea mixed with Maybe-I-Should-Write-Something's prompt (Team in some kind of danger)
Thank you both and also, thanks to everyone else who reviewed =)
Oh ya! I separated this into parts 1, 2, 3… for easier reading… just on those main changes in area/characters/etc…
Now, onto Truth behind Lies!
Disclaimer: I own nothing, if I did, I'd be a character on the show =)
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PLEASE READ Author's Note AT END OF STORY!
Thank you all so much, Jen*
PART 1
NCIS Bullpen
08:39
Ziva stood in the elevator as it made its slow ascend to her floor. Finally the doors opened and she stepped out. As soon as she got to her desk, Gibbs sent her a glare, "What are you doing here? You're supposed to take the day."
Ziva shrugged, "I did not need the day off."
"Go Home." Gibbs said, but Ziva didn't move, causing him to sigh. Every year on this day, Gibbs would tell her to take the day. It was the anniversary of Ziva killing Ari. Ziva would always take the day, but this year was different. She wasn't just going to let herself sit at home doing nothing all day.
Tony and McGee walked in, bickering over something for the third time that week. Tony stopped in front of her desk, "Hey Zee-vah! Why are you here? I today was your day off?"
Ziva looked up, "It is, but I thought I should catch up on some work."
"You need a life," Tony stated as he sat down at his desk.
"I already have a life." Ziva said, totally confused.
"No! It's an expression! It means you need to get a hobby, have some fun, you know, LIVE!" Tony exclaimed. Ziva just shook her head at him.
"Gear up, got a lead on our case!"
House by Quantico
10:33
Parking their car against the curb, they all got out. Pulling their guns from their holsters they moved cautiously towards the white cargo van in the driveway. "Clear." Tony whispered as the advanced towards the door.
"NCIS, federal agents, open up!" Gibbs yelled and when they got no answer, he kicked down the door.
"Clear!" Tony shouted from the living room.
"Clear!" McGee yelled from the kitchen.
"Clear!" Gibbs bellowed from the dinning room.
"We've got a body in here!" Ziva exclaimed from the bedroom.
The team walked into the bedroom only to see a bloody body on the bed. "Call Ducky." Gibbs ordered.
Ziva opened her cell phone and dialed, "Autopsy." Ducky answered.
"We've got a body here at 38 Mill Road."
"Ah, I heard you we're heading to Quantico. How many bodies?"
"Only one…"
Before she could finish a loud "BANG" echoed through the room, sending a powerful blast from under the bed. With the velocity of the blast, Gibbs was thrown to the wall, McGee towards the closet door, Tony towards the door, and Ziva towards the mirror by the dresser…
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PART 2
Somewhere
15:27
Ziva opened her eyes groggily to some unfamiliar sounds: feet scuffing against concrete, constant annoying groans, and soft voices… No matter how confused she was, she knew one thing; this was definitely not in the bull pen.
"Hey Ziva, you awake over there?" Tony asked from across the room.
Ziva moved her hand to try and rub her eyes, only to find that they were bound. Blinking a few times to get her eyes used to the light, "Yes, I am awake now."
She looked around carefully. Tony, McGee, and Gibbs were all bound in a similar fashion as she was. Hands tied together, around a pole, while sitting on the floor. All four poles were rusted and Ziva was across from Tony and beside Gibbs, while McGee was beside Tony and across form Gibbs
She tried to loosen the bindings but they were too tight and to make it worse, there were handcuffs then the ropes.
"Where are we?" Ziva asked.
"We don't..." McGee replied but abruptly stopped when the door flew open and 2 men walked in.
They looked Arabic and spoke it too, "تخبرنا جميع تعرفه عن الدومينو" (A/N- Tell us all you know about DOMINO")
Ziva sighed and answered, "ماذا تريد أنت الأوباش" (A/N- What do you want you bastards")
A fist came her way and hit her on her right cheek. Her lip spurted blood but she did not show the pain.
She relayed the message to the team in English quickly adding, "If I had the chance… I would kill them right here and now but my hands are tied…"
Another fist came and this time on her left cheek, "We can speak English…." The first man said in heavily accented English, "Maybe you should die instead…." He punched her again in the face.
Just as his fist hit her face another man walked into the room and yelled, "Samuel! Get away from her."
Ziva looked flabbergasted, Gibbs looked amazed, McGee looked shocked, while Tony looked furious and petrified while thinking, "He is dead! He killed Kate and Gibbs killed him!"
He bellowed an order to the men who promptly left the room.
"Ari…. You… You are dead!?" Ziva stuttered, still obviously shocked. But her sentence was more of a question then a statement.
"Shalom Zivaleh."
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PART 3
Somewhere
16:20
(A/N- Tony and McGee do not know that Ziva killed Ari and Ari was Ziva's half brother)
"But your dead! Gibbs killed you in his basement 3 years ago!" Tony yelled.
"Actually Tony I have a confession. Gibbs did not shot him… I did." Ziva confessed shamefully, "I killed my half brother!" She looked up at Ari, "Or at least I thought I did…"
"You killed Ari?" Tony was shocked, "Why didn't you tell us Ari was your brother?"
"For her own safety, but…" Ari commented but was cut off.
"حان الوقت للانتقال إلى" (A/N- Time to move out) A man yelled throwing open the door and he, the man now know as Samuel, his partner, Kareem, and another man stormed in.
The man now leading the pack threw a set of keys to Ari, "You get him," Pointing to Gibbs. He smiled, evilly at Ziva, "I get her."
"Do not hurt her Abdul." Ari said with a note of concern lingering in his tone.
Abdul grinned again, his rotted yellowed teeth showing, "You do not control me. You get him and I get this little beauty," He said as he pinched Ziva's cheeks.
Samuel roughly untied McGee and pulled him to his feet, Kareem did the same for Tony. Ari undid Gibbs' cuffs and pulled him to his feet, carefully watching Abdul.
Abdul undid Ziva and put his hands around her waist, he pulled her forcefully to her feet, his hands lingering just a bit too long. No one could mistake that look on her face for anything other then pure disgust.
"You follow me, Samuel follows him, Kareem follows you." Abdul barked as he pushed Ziva out the door, Ari following with Gibbs, Samuel following with McGee, and finally Kareem, with Tony.
Ari's eyes widened when he saw Ziva's back. Shards of glass from the mirror littered the shirt while blood stained the cloth. He would do anything to rush up to her, and see what happened, but he couldn't. His boss, Abdul, did not know Ziva was his half-sister, and Ari planned to keep it that way.
After going down a hallway and up a short flight of stairs the team was pushed out a double door and into the harsh sunlight. Just outside the door, a transport truck was waiting for them. As the team was forcefully pushed in they could tell that this was no ordinary truck. Once they neared the end of the truck, the area closest to the cab, they were hand cuffed to rails along the wall.
Abdul looked around, "Ari, stay here. Kareem and Samuel, you are with me." He said as he tossed a machine gun to Ari and started walking to the end of the trailer and closed the door. It closed off all light, leaving the rest coming from the ventilation holes. Soon the truck rumbled to life and started to move.
Ari was sitting in the only real seat while the team was stuck on the floor. As they moved along, the team strained there necks too get a good look at the boxes and equipment. One by one, they realized that everything was specialized for bomb making. C-4, dynamite, blasting caps, wires, and more.
Ziva, keeping her voice low, whispered harshly, "Ari! Why are you here? Why did you capture us? Where are they taking us? Why are you a part of this?"
Ari got up and moved to the floor so the NCIS team could see and hear him better, "You all must understand. I am not bad here. I do not want them to set and detonate the bombs."
Tony snorted, "Yeah right! You kill and hurt innocent people! You shot Gerald! You kidnapped Kate! And then you killed Kate for no good reason, she was innocent!"
"And more importantly, I saw you die and bleed out on my basement floor!" Gibbs commented.
"And I shot you. I stood over your dead body. I took your body back to Tele Aviv and went to your funeral!" Ziva added.
"Ziva, I thought you knew. Father told me he'd tell you after I left. That lying benzona!" Ari said angrily.
"Tell me what?"
"I had an identical twin, Amyl. He looked exactly like me and sounded like me, but he wasn't. Father never told me, but I found out. One day I stormed into Father's office and he was there, ordering Amyl on that mission that got him killed. Father ordered me to stay silent and go immediately into hiding and I moved to California and changed my name to Ari Smith. After a while I saw a news report on the web about a NCIS agent that was murdered and the killer had been killed. I realized that, that was Amyl. After looking into the reports it said Agent Gibbs had killed him but I had a feeling that you had." He directed that at Ziva.
Ari took a breath and continued, "I called father because I wanted to call you but instead he ordered me to keep quiet. A few months ago I got a call telling me that I was being assigned to a terrorist cell here in DC. I am to aid this operation and once the bombs have gone off, assassinate Abdul and his boss. These bombs are going to be placed in schools, day cares, libraries, federal agencies and everywhere else. I do not want to see any more innocent people die."
Ziva nodded trustingly but Tony looked skeptical as did Gibbs and McGee.
"They are taking you to their headquarters where we will be met up with Abdul's boss. They need you to tell them about DOMINO and how to get it so they have all they need. One half of the bombs are going to be placed here in DC, and the other half are going to be placed in Israel, the reason they need DOMINO. You may think they do not have many bombs, but this truck has enough makings to create 20 bombs and it is only half full. The other trucks hold enough makings for 50 bombs. There are over 20 trucks ordered." Ari finished.
Tim looked horrified, "That can kill…. Like… I don't even want to fathom how many people it can!"
Ari nodded grimly. Ziva pursed her lips in thought while she asked, "So how do you plan on stopping this?"
Ari sighed, "I have been able to gain enough trust with Abdul and his boss but Samuel is… skeptical. I am in charge of weapons so I have all the keys to those. I cannot do this alone, I am hoping to contact Director David and get back-up, but I fear that I will have to do this alone."
The trailer was quiet except for the constant rumbled from the road and the shifting of materials. Soon the truck started to slow. Ari moved back to the chair and pulled the gun into his hands pointing it at the team. Ziva opened her mouth to speak but Ari put his finger to his lips immediately shushing her. The transport stopped and voices were faintly heard as they moved from the cab to the back. The door was latched open and a bright light flooded the trailer.
Samuel walked in rifle in hand, "Ari, Abdul wants us to switch until the next checkpoint."
Ari nodded and tossed him the other gun to him. As he walked away he turned and sent a look that clearly said, "I'm Sorry," to Ziva, and she blinked twice back giving him the confirmation that she understood.
Samuel took the seat and the gun was immediately trained on the team. The truck rumbled to life once again and took off down the road. None of the team dared to speak, so they all sat there in silence until the next checkpoint.
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Part 4
Still in the transport truck
19:23
(A/N- Just to clarify, no one on the team knows about Talia)
As the truck rumbled to the next stop, Samuel and Ari swapped positions again. Once Samuel left and the truck continued on the way, Ziva looked Ari in the eyes, "Ari, how are you going to get out alive? You are one person, and they have at least 20 people. That is just plain suicide. You need backup. You CANNOT do this alone."
Ari sighed, "I know, but I must try. I do not want innocent people to be killed. I do not want anyone to have to live through the grief of knowing that a perfectly innocent person got caught in a suicide bomber's path and died. I do not want what happened to Talia to happen again…" His voice trailed off and sadness was evident in his eyes.
The team looked to Ziva and saw the same look of grief in her eyes. Tony was the first to speak up, "Who is Talia?"
"Talia is… was, my little sister. Our little sister." Ziva said sadly. The team finally put 2 and 2 together. This was why Ziva always wanted revenge when a bomb went off and killed people. This was why Ziva always got emotional when a young girl was killed, especially when that girl was a brunette. The reason was clear to them now; Talia was her sister and was killed by a bomber.
Ziva regained her composer, "I have an idea. Do you have the keys for our cuffs?"
Air shook his head, "No, Abdul has them."
Ziva pursed her lips, "Well, that will make my idea harder but I can try. How long until we arrive? Is there any more checkpoints?"
"We have one hour left until we arrive and there are no more checkpoints." Ari replied.
Ziva strained her neck to look around the truck again. "Ari, my idea is to release myself and help you with the fight."
"Zivaleh! You can't be serious. You could die..." Ari said but was cut off by Ziva.
"If I do not help YOU will surely die. I lost you once already, I can't lose you twice."
"But how will this even work? You cuffed up and I don't have the keys." Ari stated.
Ziva gave a smile and everyone watched as she twisted and withered, trying to get out of the cuffs, "Damn, these things are tight." She mumbled under her breath. With one last grunt of pain, the pulled her right hand out of the cuffs. Moving them to her lap, she rubbed the nasty red marks on her wrists.
"You ok?" Tony and Ari both asked simultaneously with concern.
Ziva shook them off, "I am fine."
"So now what?" Gibbs asked.
"You guys have to get out of your cuffs." Ziva replied. Thinking of an idea, Ziva quickly moved her hands to her hair. Pulling a bobby pin from her bun, she moved behind Gibbs and picked the lock open. Gibbs used the bobby pin to release McGee, and McGee released Tony.
Ziva pulled herself up and she and Ari moved around the truck. Ari opened the small gun cabinet and pulled out what was in there. 4 SIG's and one small pistol. Each SIG had a full clip in it and an extra clip for it, the pistol was had one full clip, and Ari had one machine gun with a full magazine.
As Ari got the guns, Ziva collected a few things to create a drop bomb. Bringing everything to where the team was, they placed everything down. Ari, Gibbs, and Tony started to work on their game plan while Ziva and McGee worked on the drop bomb.
As they worked on it Ziva looked up, "I never knew you knew how to assemble a bomb Tim."
Tim shrugged, "I was never taught it. Remember that case where Abby got that disarmed drop bomb? I helped her take it apart piece by piece and I learnt how it was built. Quite complicated but I know that to build one, all I have to do is do what I had done when I took it apart, just in reverse. When did you learn?"
Ziva smiled and looked back down to her work, "I had no choice but to learn how to build, arm, and disarm a bomb. My father told me it was mandatory so I finished the class."
They continued to work in silence and soon they had finished 3 small drop bombs. They carefully placed the drop bombs aside safely. They turned back to the rest of the team and Ari just as they finished off their plan.
"I will be carrying the machine gun while the rest of you will have the hand guns hidden on yourself. You must pretend your cuffs are on so there are no suspicions. Once Abdul's boss arrives, you will wait for me to give the signal. I will have all three drop bombs and will throw number one, then 2, then 3. That should take out most of the men and the smoke gives you all time to pull the weapons." Ari said, "Everyone understand?"
When everyone nodded they all got ready. Ari hid the bombs in the bag he was carrying, while the team slipped the hand guns behind their shirts, just above their belts. Everyone moved back to their original seats. After another 5 minutes the truck stopped and the door was pulled open. Abdul tossed Ari the keys saying, "Take them to the poles."
Ari nodded and took them one by one to the poles outside the truck and 'locked' them up. They all could see that all of the trucks had arrived but were now emptied into a store room. There was a total of 24 men plus Abdul, Kareem, Samuel, and the team. Most of the men were unarmed and the few that were armed only carried a SIG and the occasional machine gun.
Abdul left Ari with the machine gun as he went to go check the overall progress. Not long later a limo arrived and a tall dark man stepped out with two armed guards. As Abdul met him they walked over to the team, "Tell me about DOMINO." He barked.
"Never." Ziva said defiantly earning another punch to her face creating a bigger bruise then there was before. Abdul and his boss turned their back and walked about 30 meters then stopped. Air silently gave the signal and threw bomb one towards the area where most of the workers were, another towards Abdul, his boss, and the 2 armed guards, and the last bomb went towards the middle left of the room where there was the rest of the men.
The team quickly pulled away from the poles and ducked behind some empty wooden crates where Ari joined them. After the smoke had cleared, at least 15 of the men were dead leaving only about 10 more to kill. The team quickly went into action, firing away, and killing off the people who had the guns first. By now, only 5 or 6 people were left fighting. The crate the team was hiding behind was now destroyed.
Abdul, Kareem, Abdul's bosses guards were all dead but Samuel, Abdul's boss, and 5 other men were still fighting. Ari pulled the trigger and sent a shower of bullets flying towards Abdul's boss and Samuel. They both were killed instantly but the other men realized what was happening and ducked until the machine gun ran out of bullets.
3 of the men snuck up behind the team and lunged. One got McGee, the other got Ari, and the other got Ziva.
As Ari and the man battled it out, Ari gave him a good punch causing him to fly back. Gibbs fired and the man was killed.
They all heard a eerie 'crack' and turned only to see that Ziva has her attacker pinned and has broken his neck with her bare hands.
Only one man was left, and he was battling McGee. McGee lost his gun as a punch knocked it away from him. McGee had his hands on the man's neck and was attempting to strangle him. But the man was too strong. He flipped McGee over and tried to get Tim's hands off his neck.
The team and Ari were about to help him when bullets came flying their way. The team ducked. Once behind a large I beam, the team saw that Abdul's boss hadn't died. He had a SIG and was now shooting at them. The team fired away, but the boss was too smart. He ducked. Ari whispered, "Remember May 1995?"
Ziva smiled and nodded. Ari slid away and Ziva fired again at the boss. Getting up she moved the opposite way that Ari had. Firing again, and again, purposely missing.
The boss stood up, gun on Ziva and a loud "BANG!" erupted from a gun barrel. Ari stood behind the boss, his gun still smoking. By now McGee had finished his battle with the man by smacking his head into the wall multiple times, killing him.
Ari and Ziva walked back to the team, smiles evident on their faces. Tony smiled back and asked, "What happened in May of 1995?"
Ziva shook her head, "Maybe one day you'll actually find out."
Ari lead the team through the bay doors towards a small Gulfstream G650 airplane. "What's this?" McGee asked.
"Abdul's private jet. We're a good length away from DC." Ari said as he climbed up onto it. The team followed and took up the seats. Air walked along to the cockpit and Ziva followed. Ari sat down and started the plane.
"When did U learn how to fly a plane?" Ziva asked as they soared through the air.
"A while ago. When I moved to California, I learn how to pilot it." Ari replied looking at the clouds as they passed by.
As soon as they reached a good altitude he turned on auto-pilot and looked Ziva in the eyes, "Are you alright?"
Ziva smiled and nodded, "Yeah, I will be. Let's go home." She said turning back to the clouds.
A few months later
13:00
"Welcome to NCIS, Special Agent Ari Hawsari." Director Vance said with a smile ad he handed Ari his badge and SIG. Ari and Ziva had both resigned form Mossad and joined NCIS as special agents. A few days after the takedown, Gibbs offered Ari a place on the team. Tony was a bit skeptical at first, but Ari soon showed that he was really that big brother type Ziva had always said he was.
So now this was a team of 5, Ari, Ziva, Gibbs, Tony, and McGee, plus Abby, Ducky, Palmer, and Vance. It was just one big happy family….
The End
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A/N- *Head slap* Ok, I guess I deserved that….
*Head slap* Ok, I guess I may have deserved that too…
*HEAD SLAP!* Ok, ok, ok! I know I'm super late with this update!!! Soooo sorry about that!! Way too much homework and stuff… Ugh, still overloaded with projects and assignments…
I know this was supposed to be a one shot but there was too much to add so it's a longish one… Sorry about any missing parts though….
Also, I've been a bit… depressed, with the lack of reviews lately. I can't figure out how there's like 100+ readers and only… 4 reviewers? Just to let anyone who doesn't like writing long reviews (which I totally understand) Even 2 word reviews like "great chapter" "Horrible story!" "More Please!" "Really great!" "Awful Chapter!" Are good! I even appreciate criticism.
Due to my lack of updates, I am now putting mostly al of my stories on Hiatus… Just to not keep you all waiting….
Thank you to: tiva2121, AthosionWarrior, ElleGr, and Maybe-I-Should-Write-Something for your reviews =) Big thanks though goes to AthosionWarrior who actually kept me going on this story and not giving up from my lack of reviews…. I owe you for that =)
This story is on hiatus for now… Idk if I will continue, but who knows…
Thank you for reading and please review… Who knows, maybe that review will 'push' me forward to writing another story for this…
Thanks,
Jen*